GAELIC SPORTS WORLD Issue 29 – July 4, 2015 | Page 13

Photo courtesy of Jacob Feldmann.

club not only as a college sporting club but also a city
sporting entity.
“The tournament will help us for the future. It was the first
time we played together as a team against other teams.
“We were able to present ourselves, which raised a lot of attention here in Darmstadt and
might bring us some new players.
Also we finally know now how it
is to play a real Hurling match
and we learned a lot from that,”
Feldmann stated.
They also began the process of
building team or ‘mannshaft’
through the tournament.
“Last but not least, we were able
to spend a whole weekend together as a team and play as a team.
There is no better way to generate
a team spirit than in that way!”

After the tournament Darmstadt discussed future projects such as having a Camogie team and how to gain
more interest in Darmstadt and find more players.
“The goal of the university club is to promote hurling and Gaelic Sports among the students and in
the area of Darmstadt and
give especially beginners and
people to whom the GAA
was yet unknown the opportunity to play and practice
the sport.”
The Darmstadt GAA university club could thrive in an environment of young fit adults
eager to learn new things and
take sports like hurling to new
audiences eager to go out there
and just play the game. And,
like all sports, and Hurling
is no different, the more one
plays the less complicated it
becomes.

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